even chief cant be this fast.. its anime, they got to make it look cool.. even though it aint possible. you wont see this kind of movement in a cutscene. only in anime. perfect example.. Red team fight with atriox. they aint jumping around like ninjas in that..
@@Namelessg-no6vy Actually its more accurate than you think, its said that a Spartan II with Mjolnir armor has a 300% increased human reaction time and for a normal person see a Spartan in action would be just like series of very fast and incomprehensible movements. For sure that the anime style brings lots of exageration, but don't understimate the Spartan capabilities.
@@Gerhard_Ace lol.. i get it you want the spartans to be like those anime protagonist.. but its just not gonna happen. they fast sure.. but not like this fast. if you dont see chief doing it. why argue that they can backflip and jump around like ninjas. MC fought hundred if not thousands.. yet not a single time did he flip around like some anime motard. he climb then kill. they roll and slide.. faster than any USMC soldiers. but they dont fcking do this crap. whats next. Martial arts spartans. doing butterfly kicks and scissor kicks? like people love anime so much that they just cant differentiate grounded to bullshit. locke's team did alot more flashy stuff than the original spartans.. and they arent gliding into the realm of anime bs. i never said they are slow.. im just saying. they aint this. next time just call it halo IP MAN.
When I watched this when it first came out, blockbuster was still a thing lol. I found her death to be very sad back then, and I still do. O’Brian was definitely humbled after this mission and I’m sure all of them grieve for her throughout countless missions
I do. If you're good enough, you can use an energy sword with no battery (which means no sword and essentially a blunted fist) to beat them to death indiscrimately.
Actually you only need a grenade to remove chieftain and brutes helmet an then 1 shoot to head with BR or smg burst on Halo2. Halo2 brutes die from headshoots is very realistic, but you had to remove helmets someway.
The fight between Locke and Chief was embarrassing to video game soldiers everywhere. Not only should it been over in seconds due to chief being superior to locke in every way, but that was sluggish boxing compared to what any experienced soldier even in real life could have done in close quarters.
Can Spartans sprint? If so why not on halo 1,2 and three and why do they need an armour *ability* to do so in reach from what we have seen from the cannon games as 4 and 5 are apparently not cannon Spartans, while wearing armour, do not have the capacity to move faster then a walk if this is incorrect then why can’t you sprint in 1, 2, 3 and reach( without the armour ability). Bearing in mind how some people believe that halo 4 and 5 are not cannon. Because it would seem that spartan 2 and 3s can’t sprint for some reason it would be safe to assume that Locke would win as he is much faster. This is assuming the idiots who say 4 and 5 are not cannon are correct.
That dodge and back fist is just perfect. It's how I want to see my superior fighters fight. No wasted movement, everything is bent towards winning the fight.
"no wasted movement" *surfs on brute chieftan into a river and cartwheels off of him* *backflips to dodge the first two subsequent hammer swings* XD - to be fair to you, the dodge into backfist is the best and most grounded moment of the whole fight...but most of the fight is unnecessarily flashy anime stuff.
@@kevinchang8090 THANK YOU FOR SAYING THAT!! no wasted movement my ass. for a second i thought i was watching naruto. spartan moving like his armor aint weight a ton.. even 117 climbs on top of these guys to kill them.. yeah he did one back flip.. but he didnt launch 15 feet into the air.
The lore of halo is so interesting. Humanity kidnapped the most genetically gifted kids, forced them to undergo the hardest training since childhood, performed horrifying experiments on them and injected them with untold enhancers that could kill normal people, and put them in suits that could break human bodies... they spent billions of dollars and broke all the morals to create the perfect supersoldiers, and they ended up being the only effective weapon against hyper advanced and hyper evolved aliens.
And they weren't even made with the intention of fighting the covenant at first they just wanted to use them to deep strike some Insurrectionist leaders
@@JacobIvice I'm not a Halo fan, but why exactly does that matter? Nothing is really original when you think about it. There's probably some obscure book that only 3 people have ever read which actually was the first to come up with these ideas and Warhammer 40K just took inspiration or ripped it off from it. It's about how it's told that matters.
@@deanooooooo6496 I dont really recall super soldiers in Starship Troopers, though Im only familiar with the movies, not the books. But I will give you that the the Imperial Guard do fit in line with the average Starship Trooper grunt.
I love how its clearly shown that while Cal clearly has the edge in reaction time, agility and overall skill, one hit from the Brute will still turn her into a tomato and lettuce salad. Edit: I started a bit of a debate down in the replies. Look through them if you want, although I wouldn't recommend it... Edit #2: Goddamn people, it's been two years and change and y'all still wanna yap about this comment? I'm honestly tired of Halo at this point; Infinite has long since killed off any enthusiasm I had for the series.
I Think it was less the Brute, and more just how freaking devastating the gravity hammer is. Not that Brutes aren't strong. On average they were physically stronger than the later spartan models, but Im pretty sure the hammer itself is what did most of the work in taking Cal off the census. There is a reason its a one hit kill regardless of who is using the thing.
@@smugreptile6695 i think its in the novel first strike john states how easily the brute can overpower and kill him if not careful next moment i believe one brute tears a spartan apart.
@@smugreptile6695 Spartans weren't--and still aren't--the strongest combatants on the field. Whether they be IIs, IIIs or especially IVs, anything past Jackals were and are their physical equals/superiors. Of course, that doesn't help when your opponent can react to and counter your blows almost as fast as you can throw them.
@@bean108 I seem to recall the spartan reaction time being the biggest factor. yeah they can flip a tank, but they can also flip you after dodging that punch you only just thought about throwing. Imagine, instead of assassinations, you just get a "Press X to flip [player name here]" prompt
Yeah though id say the odst were portrayed alittle poorly if that had been someone like buck they'd have shot that brute dead the moment cal stopped his hammer
@@jacobweatherford4696 unless that ODST had like a railgun, spartan laser or stanchion sniper rifle it'd take too many bullets from a regular AR, BR, DMR or SMG to put down a brute chieftain of all things that fast.
Compare this to the live-action show and dang man, high-octane universes like this need to stay animated. Like if they wanted to put Metroid onto tvs, their best play would be an animated series; a live-action movie would be horrible.
@@FlabbyTabby There's already been a scene where Chief steps out of his armor in one of the games but it cuts before it shows his face. It is a live action series, yes, but they very easily could've just pulled a Mandalorian. (Worked perfectly fine for them before the episodes where his helmet was removed.) Seeing Chief without his helmet just doesn't feel like Chief. His helmet has become such a staple for his character it's off-putting to see people refer to a guy that just looks like some random Joe as the Master Chief.
Im guessing you’ve never seen the Halo Landfall trailer, ODST trailer and the reach live action trailer. All of those promo trailers were fairly grounded and didn’t rely a lot on cgi and used some practical effects. Those trailers proved that a live action halo movie/tv show could work but the problem with the halo tv show is they don’t seem to understand Halo, the Spartans, the covenant and lore behind them. All they had to do was read the books and play the games. They had so much source material to use and they chose not do that
Chief in gameplay: I shoot. Chief in literally everything: I have mastered every form of martial arts in the known cosmos and will turn your body into modern art.
@@Psyrus88 that’s literally what the original comment implies. It’s not something to be ashamed of, the extended lore is all over the place. People just don’t know.
@@TheD736 Actually no, they just made it look like he fell so he could be rescued, btw if you watched this episode you would know that the green spartan isn’t master chief at all, its a girl.
@@Shockwave-uu8uu You talk like you want something from me. I have nothing. ODST go in tha water. That's all I came here to say. I didn't watch this episode. I wouldn't even know how to.
Let take a moment to appreciate that the Spartan blocked the brute attack with only one hand…… the chieftain was swinging it’s mace at full speed and she blocked it with only one hand…..
I don’t think that’s lore accurate but many people seem to like this fight so who’s to say a single extended spartan arm can’t stop a full giant ass gravity hammer swing by a gigantic alien brute gorilla.
No reason it shouldn't. Spartan IIs are about twice as strong as a totally jacked human, and then they put on the armor that multiplies strength by five. That's the strength of ten ripped dudes.
They're bred to get the job done. Spartans are operatives, not genocidal maniacs... So kill is only if necessary. The ones who are bred to kill are the Brutes.
How is it bs? Chief handed Locke’s ass to him on a silver platter, as expected when you think of a pansy spartan IV trying to throw hands with one of the most elite members of the spartan ii program.
@@tokusatsukeyblade797 No, he didn't. Locke cracked the Chief's visor, got a few hits in, generally did more than the Chief would have realistically let him. They even had a test of strength and Chief couldn't push back without stunning Locke with a headbutt.
@@Espartanica Locke’s armor is of better quality than John’s and since most of a Spartan’s physical strength comes from the suit than I can see why John had a stuggle with Locke. But if John wanted to kill Locke he could have but it would break his character.
@@IMBAIT The Chief had far better reaction times and training. Without augmentation or armor the Chief still should have had a giant advantage. And no, Gen 1 armor was MORE durable and STRONGER than Gen 2, and the Chief only swappdd over because Gen1 was outdated. Gen2 had a strength cap because it was made for weaker bodies, and even with that equal strength the Chief should have kicked Locke's ass thanks to his decades of experience, and even moreso if he was wearing the suit thst actually WAS better.
After seeing this Halo Legends for the first time over a decade ago I immediately fell in love with Cal. Everything that this anime shows her to be is more than lore accurate, I’m glad we got gems like this to go back to after the Halo T.V. show. Looking back on it now, Daisy and Cal were such waisted opportunities that didn’t get enough screen time. I want to see them in something else!
Reminds of of a lesson my father taught me, Strength on toughness are very important in a fight, but if you can’t hit the speedy bastard and he hits you just right then toughness and strength won’t get you far enough”, and this fight scene always reminds me of that lesson.
Just a reminder, this spartan is wearing MK.4 MJOLNIER not the Mark 5-7 which has the features that not only give the wearer a shield but servos that give an increase to speed, strength and reaction time by a factor of 5.
Early Mjolnir still had the servos. According to the Fall of Reach novel, the power of those servos and strength enhancers caused the armor to kill the initial test pilots.
If I recall correctly they are all fairly similar but 5 added shielding, and 6 added the special "liquid crystal" layer that allowed for what were traditionally in canon ship-borne AI to be interfaced into the armor. There's a scene in Halo Wars where a team of IIs wearing Mk4 are fighting almost identically to this. It's the scene where John Forge kills the Arbiter
its fight scenes like this they make me believe they need to make a 3rd person halo game where u can actually implement fights like these and really show off what a spartan can truly do
whyyyyyy. why is halo an anime now holy shit. like Spartans are super soldiers sure. they run faster jump higher sure. but seeing this spartan flip around like a magic ninja totally clashes with the theme of it being a sci fi military shooter.
A HAM IN SPACE yeah ive not been keeping up with halo it seems. i glanced through the halo 5 cinematics and saw the team osiris intro scene and outright puked. that said, in the same game chief fights locke and they're slow af in that fight. i like the weight of the impacts but they move so goddamned slowly and their technique does not demonstrate advanced training at all. smh so much inconsistency in the canon.
0:25 A good demonstration of what "power" is. To move precisely, in an instant, using only the necessary strength required to complete the task 1:02 Honestly though this is the toughest part of the scene for me. The brute chieftain is, at they're core, made of the same stuff as Cal. To shrug something like that off so easily is the exact same level that the SPARTANs are shown to operate at. There isn't a single wasted movement after the brute hurls.
It always makes me happy to see Spartans fight like their supposed too. As much as I love the games I cannot stand the fact we only see them shoot when In reality the Spartans especially Chef himself should be running around absolutely wrecking shit like the DoomSlayer.
ODSTs, Spartans and Marines all have magnetic plates on their back armour plates to hold their weapons so the strap on the sniper wasn't really necessary.
Straps are better TBH. Why the heck did 'rifle on chest' became a lost technique in Halo? I always feel weird when they put weapon on their back during cutscenes to do something in combat zone. Yeah, I was mostly joking. I believe it was due to gameplay mechanic and cool factor.
Considering all the electronics on these firearms, like the sniper scope for example, you want to keep magnets as far away from those as possible. And these appear to be very powerful magnets relatively speaking.
This short clips is better than all three Halo show Episodes combined and, I predict, even better than whole show. I'd rewatch Halo Legends on repeat before liking the new Halo show smdh
I like this fight. Unlike some other movies where I see people for some reason not dodging an attack they should have dodged, this scene shows me how and why the fight gone the way it is.
And not only that, looking at the timeline of spartan 2 deployment, depending on how early on in the human covenant war this takes place, she could very well be 14.
@@Jedilord882 Cal was born in 2517, and this mission took place at earliest in 2542. Putting Cal as 25 at the youngest. But thats just chronologically speaking. Factoring in the augmentations effects at slowing the aging process, and any time spent in cyro during travel, Cal may very well still have been, biologically speaking, what we would call a teenager. She would have been at max 34 chronologically speaking, so comparatively in the early 20's at oldest biologically.
That spartan just stopped a gravity hammer with one arm and fractured a brute chieftains skull bare handed. Shit like that is why the covenant called spartans 'demons'. Interesting lore fact on a similar not: because of how similar most gen 2 and 3 spartan armor was, it led to a belief amongst some of the covenant that Spartans never really died and that the UNSC would recover their bodies and somehow revive or reactivate them. Its especially interesting because UNSC wanted humans to have a similar belief, so when the made the spartan program public, they secretly made a rule that spartans could never be declared KIA under any circumstances, they could only be listed MIA. That gave rise to the phrase & belief amongst some that "Spartans never die."
Gen 2 and 3 was not used during the Covenant era. Neither was Mark 2 or 3. What you are probably thinking of is Gen 1 Mark 4 armor, and Gen 1 Mark 5 armor. Gen 2 is what you see in Halo 4 and 5, Gen 3 is what you see in Halo Infinite. Also I'm curious where you heard that thing about the Covenant thinking Spartans got revived. I don't remember that in any of the books, maybe the Fall of Reach?
@@duck8206 you’re right about the armor but what he said about them believing that they were revived is true I just also can’t remember where I heard it from. It was a RU-vid video by a halo channel.
@@romeoramirez4980 thats were I heard it, I just can't remember the specific video. I think its was a Halo Canon video about different types of Spartans or something like that.
For all those wondering where this came from. It's from a 7 short film DVD series called "Halo legends", this story in particular is called "The babysitter" and no it is not the masterchief fighting in this scene (watch it for yourself and you'll see). Also, the DVD consists of pretty neat stories about the lore on halo and some on the arbiter, as far as I remember. There's even a DragonBall Z type action short film in it, and it's the "odd one out" of all the 7 short films. :) Edit: One of my favorite stories in that DVD is called "The prototype", in short it features the first suit the spartans were gonna use.
0:15 Not sure what i'd be shitting myself over more; the enormous brute swinging a giant ass hammer inches away from my head, or the fact that it was stopped one handed by another slightly smaller brute.
Probably very little experience from looks of it O'Brien was probably the Rookie of this squad add in his role of sniper/spotter he probably wasn't that close a lot, add in the ODST'S dislike of SPARTANS at that time ( not sure if that rivalry is still going) plus his attitude about being the backup was careless as shown by being blindsided by the running and panting brute chieftain at the end. P.S. On another note I have a theory that O'Brien and Cal-141 knew each other like maybe childhood friends/sweethearts before she was abducted and continuing with her flash clone till she died, just a theory I'm probably wrong but I do like it.
It was just a stroke of bad luck. You can't always make sure you're not going to snap a twig with the next step you take, and it's not like he was sloppy or anything. The Brute just caught him off guard.
I wish they would make a straight up Halo anime. Would blow the Paramount show out of the water. It'd be up there with Sci Fi anime like Cowboy Bebop, Ghost in the Shell, and Neon Genesis Evangelion.
If (IF) I remember correctly, the Covenant-Human War began when the Spartans were 14. The Harvest Campaign took about 5 years, and this battle (presumably) takes place after it. That would make them them about 19. According to the Halo wikia, Cal dies sometime between 2540 and 2551. That would mean she is between 29 and 40 in the episode. However, this doesn't take into account time spent in Cryo, so she's likely a few years younger.
considering Spartans get alot better with age and it isn't really said if a Spartan can train hard enough to get stronger either as that could be entirely possible but regardless if the brute was stronger it wouldn't really matter as in ghost of onyx a unarmored Spartan 3 was able to massacre brutes with just a knife
Well a knife is only as deadly as it's user And spartans are HIGHLY lethal I wouldn't be surprised if a spartan killed a pair of hunters with just a brute's tooth Okay maybe... But still...
Keep her steady Jame- I mean O'Brien. Man, this episode brought back so many memories of ODST. -Thank God Halo Inifinite is Halo again.- Halo Infinite? More like Halo Finite. 343 can't make a good game to save their lives.
@@AwFiddleStickss Bruh, it didn't take long for me to become fully disillusioned with Halo as a whole after writing this comment. Halo is fucked, and Infinite is like 343's last pathetic attempt at capturing what Bungie did. Should've just let the franchise when it did, on Reach, with the last vestiges of human resistance.
@@physical_insanity Definitely agreed. 343i utterly destroyed a series with the potential to surpass things like Star Wars in terms of popularity. Halo was king and has been butchered by the new development team. It’s a shame.
@@AwFiddleStickss That's what happens when development is passed from a team with years of experience to a collectives of people who have never worked together in their lives.
@@physical_insanity While I do respect your opinion, this is 343’s make or break moment. If they fuck up, so be it. If it releases great, then we may be able to enjoy a good amount of time with the franchise for a few years, probably a decade if they get it perfect. It’s showing a lot of promise so far, so I wouldn’t give up on 343 completely.
I really liked this short simply because it showed a solo spartan in action, in all the halo games the Spartans are very disproportionate to the elites and brutes. In the book, Contact Harvest, the humans describe how big the brutes are with examples like “limbs as big as trees”, which this anime really captures. And the only way a spartan can really beat a brute is by speed, not strength, which was also showed in this clip
"And the only way a spartan can really beat a brute is by speed, not strength, which was also showed in this clip" *stops a 2 handed hammer swing with one hand* XD - I agree that canon says that brutes are stronger than spartans, I disagree that this was shown in any way in this sequence. Conclusion from this sequence is that spartans are faster AND stronger than brutes, and they are also anime ninjas that surf on their enemies into rivers for style points and do flips to dodge because they're so bored and superior that they need to spice things up with unnecessary and suboptimal movement.
This is why I think the Halo TV series would've worked better if it were animated series. More affordable, the action can be more intense and so much more of the lore could fit in.
Who’s here because of the Halo shows releasing???? Seriously tho, somebody needs to get this in front of the Paramount Halo series team stat. They would learn a thing or two
Man I seriously wish this series had its own art book like the other halos. It would have so friggin cool to the concept for all the characters along with other things from halo legends.
That's how I viewed the Spartans as described in the book Halo Fall of Reach. Not that slow jogging crap and predictable movements in Halo 5. That game was such a disaster. But this scene honestly shows the lethality of the Spartan 2's and 3's who had very similar augmentations and training.
Okay, what the hell?! So a Brute Chieftain can survive falling over 150 feet into the water, but when Spartans just walk into the water they die? A Spartan II just kicked a Chieftain's ass, while Spartans get their ass kicked by walking into shallow waters. Good game, Bungie.
Makes me wonder. A single Spartan and his/her armor was said to cost more than an advanced warship to produce. Seemed like a waste to scarfice herself for a cocky amatuer group of ODSTs. I bet she could've gotten the job done without the ODSTs dragging her down and compromising their position.
Well, that's what makes Spartansm 2s so amazing and gives them emotion (despite being emotional when not behind closed doors). They're loyal to the UNSC and their comrades but most of all each other. They know they're the UNSC's most valuable assets and yet they would still give their lives to protect their comrades even if they are some dipshit, cocky ODST's. Like when either Jerome or Douglas was about to sacrifice themselves without a second thought until SGT. Forge intervened and volunteered instead. It's cool that the hate isn't mutual between the 2s and the ODST's but completely one sided.
@@caliside7449 spartans have less emotion than average humans, it's one of their strengths. Sacrificing soldiers to win is also something they dont mind doing.
Any time I need to be reminded about how a lore accurate Spartan would work I come back to this. It shows us simply how a Spartan 2 works to the lethal and efficent
